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ANA reports that the City of Cape Town has launched an outcomes-based workforce development programme to improve residents’ access to employment opportunities.
Mayor Patricia de Lille said the three-year programme in collaboration with Lulaway Holdings aimed to reduce the number of discouraged work seekers by identifying, preparing, and placing them in education, training, and ultimately securing permanent work opportunities for them. With a focus on youth and those living in high-density and traditionally marginalised areas, the programme aimed to help 30,000 unemployed residents, provide work-readiness skills training to 6,000 programme participants, and subsequently to place 4,050 candidates in various employment opportunities. This would be achieved through industry partnerships which would ensure that training was directly linked to employers’ talent needs, De Lille said. “We have committed to opening 20 Lulaway job centres or digital kiosks in high-density areas across Cape Town. We will be working with local partners that will incorporate Lulaway job centres into their existing service offerings,” Lulaway CEO Jake Willis indicated.
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